From the Inside Out: Dancing (Quietly) in China

By Emily Withenbury The very first words I learned in Mandarin Chinese were “wu, liu, qi, ba.” This was December 2010 in a dance studio in Beijing, China. I learned these words so we could count our collaborating Chinese dancers in on the “5, 6, 7, 8.” Two weeks ago I took […]

August 13, 2012  |  Read Article

Let’s Get Wriggly

By Emmaly Wiederholt When did people become afraid to get up and wriggle in front of each other? My mom posed this question to the family after we attended the Shroyer Community Center 4th Annual Rock n’ Roll Party near Chama, NM. With dinner buffet followed by 50’s dance tunes, […]

August 9, 2012  |  Read Article

Building a studio: The tale of 975 Howard Studio

By Derek Harris             When my partner Meegan and I first began to contemplate starting our own dance space, a famous quote from an old baseball movie kept coming to mind.  “If you build it, they will come.”  Well, building a baseball diamond in the middle of a corn field […]

July 12, 2012  |  Read Article

Dance’s Real Crisis

By Emmaly Wiederholt Lately I’ve been hearing a lot on the economics of dance. Lightsey Darst’s article series “The Poorest Art: Dance and Money” and Brittany Beyer’s article “A Dancer’s Retort” in the Huffington Post both popped up on my computer screen recently. At Dance/USA’s annual conference I sat through […]

July 9, 2012  |  Read Article

Thoughts on Trust

By Emmaly Wiederholt In Malinda LaVelle’s “Urge” I lick water off the floor. And yes, while one could argue that I’m crazy to willingly and repeatedly lick the floor (although I do clean it first), I want to argue that it’s because I trust her and the other members of […]

June 11, 2012  |  Read Article